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Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong - Anthropologists Talk Back (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R680
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Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong - Anthropologists Talk Back (Paperback, New): Catherine Besteman, Hugh Gusterson

Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong - Anthropologists Talk Back (Paperback, New)

Catherine Besteman, Hugh Gusterson

Series: California Series in Public Anthropology, 13

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In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard scrutiny and finds that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous. Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists respond by offering fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior. They take on such topics as the collapse of Yugoslavia, the consumer practices of the American poor, American foreign policy in the Balkans, and contemporary debates over race, welfare, and violence against women. In the clear, vigorous prose of the pundits themselves, these contributors reveal the hollowness of what often passes as prevailing wisdom and passionately demonstrate the need for a humanistically complex and democratic understanding of the contemporary world. Available: November 2004 Pub Date: January 2005

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology, 13
Release date: 2005
First published: 2005
Editors: Catherine Besteman • Hugh Gusterson
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 282
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24356-9
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
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LSN: 0-520-24356-0
Barcode: 9780520243569

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